M. Bruce Shields – författare

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!Known for its consistent, authoritative content and presentation, Shields Textbook of Glaucoma is the premier succinct and clinically focused text on the medical and surgical management of glaucoma. This full-color, easy-to-use reference offers a rational approach to every aspect of the field, including rare glaucomas, and presents a total care plan for the patient. The seventh edition brings you fully up to date with all that’s new in this rapidly changing field with new chapters, newly colorized line drawings, and an updated design for faster reference. Presents clear, concise, highly illustrated information ideal for general ophthalmologists, residents, and other non-specialists who treat patients with glaucoma.Includes new chapters on imaging; surgical management, including minimally invasive procedures such as micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS); sustained drug delivery; and malignant glaucoma/aqueous misdirection.Contains new images, newly colorized line drawings, and new icons that highlight and differentiate procedures for quick reference.Covers advances in genetics, technology, and surgical treatment that impact your management and treatment decisions.Offers expert information that is easy to find, clearly explained, and helpfully illustrated—all from an experienced team of authors who present a balanced, consistent approach throughout.Enrich Your Ebook Reading ExperienceRead directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

The mechanisms of the various forms of glaucoma were unknown at the outset of the twentieth century. Late in the twentieth century, two nascent areas of research were beginning to provide glimpses of what the twenty-first century held in store for the future of glaucoma: the mechanisms of glaucomatous optic neuropathy and the molecular basis of the glaucomas. In Mechanisms of the Glaucomas: Disease Processes and Therapeutic Modalities, the authors review the most current knowledge available in the field and provide a basis in which researchers can effectively study the glaucomas. The intent of the book is not primarily to describe the clinical appearances of the glaucomas nor how to manage them. Rather, it is to provide basic scientists, who are working in the field of glaucoma, with a current understanding of the clinical aspects of glaucoma, and to provide clinician scientists with the basic knowledge, as they attempt to translate it into rational treatments for glaucoma. In this important new book leaders in the various fields of glaucoma review our current understanding of glaucoma from epidemiology and genetics through molecular, cellular and tissue responses to the mechanisms of the glaucomas and the mechanisms by which we manage them. Mechanisms of the Glaucomas: Disease Processes and Therapeutic Modalities will be of great value as its contents will aid the reader in prevention of blindness from glaucoma.

The mechanisms of the various forms of glaucoma were unknown at the outset of the twentieth century. Late in the twentieth century, two nascent areas of research were beginning to provide glimpses of what the twenty-first century held in store for the future of glaucoma: the mechanisms of glaucomatous optic neuropathy and the molecular basis of the glaucomas. In Mechanisms of the Glaucomas: Disease Processes and Therapeutic Modalities, the authors review the most current knowledge available in the field and provide a basis in which researchers can effectively study the glaucomas. The intent of the book is not primarily to describe the clinical appearances of the glaucomas nor how to manage them. Rather, it is to provide basic scientists, who are working in the field of glaucoma, with a current understanding of the clinical aspects of glaucoma, and to provide clinician scientists with the basic knowledge, as they attempt to translate it into rational treatments for glaucoma. In this important new book leaders in the various fields of glaucoma review our current understanding of glaucoma from epidemiology and genetics through molecular, cellular and tissue responses to the mechanisms of the glaucomas and the mechanisms by which we manage them. Mechanisms of the Glaucomas: Disease Processes and Therapeutic Modalities will be of great value as its contents will aid the reader in prevention of blindness from glaucoma.

Es ist das Verdienst von Professor Günter K. Krieglstein, das weltweit verwendete Standardwerk über Glaukome von M. Bruce Shields ins Deutsche übersetzt und im Hinblick auf die Gegebenheiten im deutschprachigen Raum bearbeitet zu haben. Der SHIELDS/KRIEGLSEIN bietet also mehr als nur die Übersetzung eines amerikanischen Lehrbuch-Klassikers: Es entspricht den Anforderungen einer deutschsprachigen Leserschaft, und es ist überdies in bezug auf das Bildmaterial reichhaltiger ausgestattet. Augenärzte in Klinik und Praxis erhalten einen profunden und aktuellen Überblick über Ätiologie und Pathophysiologie der Glaukome, über eine zeitgemäße Diagnostik sowie eine Fülle neuer Behandlungswege in der Glaukomtherapie. - Beispielsweise werden neuartige Wirkstoffe und deren Wirkmechanismen sowie Nutzen-Risiko-Analyse von medikamenten im Rahmen der medikamentösen Glaukomtherapie diskutiert; auch im Bereich der Lasertherapie der Glaukome wurden eine Reihe neuer Verfahren entwickelt, die traditionellen Therapieformen in einer kritischen Bewertung gegenübergestellt werden. Der SHIELDS/KRIEGLSTEIN bietet mehr als das amerikanische Original und ist eine lohnende Investition.